City Council needs new faces

•No Name: “In regard to Scott Worden and the blight issue, he shouldn’t feel bad. Most of us taxpayers have heard from the city this year on blight. Even if you have a trash can out after 5 o’clock you’ll get a blight ticket. But I think we need a four-year term on that city council. The people don’t vote. They need to get out and vote this year for Scott Worden. We’re tired of those same faces year after year.”

•Port Huron Resident: “The city manager is supposed to be neutral in the election of the city council and mayor.”

•No Name: “In reference to ticketing Scott Worden for the paint. The city program used to be that they would ticket people in the spring and give them until the end of summer to get the paint taken care of. It seems a little suspicious.”

•Ken Harris: “The mayoral candidate article implied Mr. Worden has never met with the current city manager. Not true. I and council members Archibald and Worden recently sat down with the city manager on a south-side downtown issue. It resulted in a now-ongoing investment and public works project.”

•Grateful Person from Kimball: “As I was rushing back to the Kohl’s store yesterday, I was praying that an honest person would find my bag of birthday gifts that I had left in the shopping cart in the parking lot. The Lord came through. The finder was honest.”

•County Resident: “I see the plasma banks are offering $400 this month for plasma. If you’re getting food stamps and you get that $400 you should report that as earned income, right? If they’re making $400 a month selling their blood, they don’t need food stamps.”

The donors get 1099 forms that report their payments to the government.

•Avid Sportsman: “You answered your own question, Michael. If you put down your compound, I’ll put down my crossbow. You guys brought in the compound bow. The crossbow has been around forever. You don’t like crossbows, we’ll make them both illegal. We’ll go to the yew tree and find some 84-year-old gentleman to make us a regular bow. Until then, the beat goes on.”

I might be wrong, but you probably are using a “modern crossbow.” Let me know if it has any of those pulleys on it. The modern — or compound — crossbow debuted in 1982. The vertical compound bow was invented in 1969.